Apple (like Google) has big plans in the "take over the world" department. The latest Apple patent aims it sights at your "personal area network"… basically they want to use RF modules on everything you own and relay that information to the internet.
That would include devices with both short range (WiFi and Bluetooth) and long range (GSM, EDGE, etc) communications capabilities, as well as devices with just short range modules, which would be able to communicate with and identify themselves to any other modules around and, potentially, piggyback their way onto the internet.
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